New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-16
LITERARY NOTES


"A translation and shrsdsenent of nsbe'aas' re-
patal sf he sdyexnnzas ID GrandssnHer GAreansaa'
Psntagrnel and Pauu IS coming nom the Iichho.
49,. M Iobn rdnfry the uanslstor. has eaeaiSea
The story and has thus made the Three Good Gants'
proper company for young people.
A new edition Of Stanley's How Found Living
stope Is announced by the scrbnefs
II 4. = French Journalist, of course. Who asserts
that ouesn Victoria Is about TO publish novel winch
she has had in her thirty years ana which enc
has been constantly correcting and sateai"&
Mr.. C. r. Talbot, the author Of that clever story
for Young people, Honor Bright" has In the press
of the Lothrops story of Newport aud yachting life
II Is called "a Midshlpman at Large"
The Ticknors arc bringing out new and cheaper
editions of Professor Morse's japanese Homes anu
Mr.. Percival Lowells g Chosen"
NJ Octave Uranne has lately published some Hoen
details respecting the family origin and tne pa'Uu
OF the author Of I" Pere Goiiot" ana |o"'''i -
Balzac, although called Toufanseau' " u,s
Touraine, was IN reality OF PIovenea eAua''' a.,
49,. man of ,,,bust constitution VINO uVeo W INC
noe of eighty wa born in the Department VI u'
Tarn In 1890 Balzac peie, VINO was ia"se''
sent TO Tours as a kind Of army stores eohuon..
appears that he also had the cacoethes soiiDo"u''
although ii was not developed 10 sucn al 80
WAS tie nyeerate scibblng propensity OF his famous
Co. ue.n Raizac brother Of the novelist, was Oh
hnsrsss tastes aud went to the coionics' whero
he engaged In commercial pursuits and dod young
The chief point, however, In NJ uzannes aIiioio 10
the influence of his father and Of the SCUM Oh
ON Balzac's intellect and work, and ne succeeuS AZ
proviuc that the novelist owed much to the pasern@
iucbratious as well to his Gascon and not W hs
Toursin origin Baizac q Gasconader by name
and nature and TO ths Is to DO traced his craving l0
RICHES and distinction his assumption OF inc oe
bcfoe n name ending In "ac," aud the exuperance VI
his fancy.
arbe Making of the Great Vest is the tide OF the
vo,uu,e in which Mr. s. A. Drake has described the
discovery and settlement Of that region The scrio
ners viii publish It.
Wal, Whitman writes thus to the Editor OF The
Pail Mall Gazette: First thank you again lor TIC
handsome money present Of some months ago. "h
did NE more good than you perhaps think ior--"
has belped ME In meals, clothing, debts, &C. ever
since My best help, however, has come In my oio
age A. naraiysis from the Br Islands. The piece liz
VIZ paper twas il early in May iast', from UNA"
guIsbcd American man OF letters aot me was 'oi'
large imitation into fiction of very little amt Vi ia
in spirit it Is altogether In letter NANNY untrue
sbt nv affairs &c.) My income from my ooohs
ROYALTIES Gel does not reach 800 year. a"
now IN nv 69th year-4iving plainly, but very com
fo,tabIy In a nttle wooden cottage of my own good
spirits Invariably, but physically SAD WHICH, ia"e
more and each successive season, uhaoio o''"
IN get abt the hVuse Without heip-nOSl VI INC uh0
tbouph without serious pain Or suffering, except
extseme weakness VIII have good deal-the par
aavsis that Frustrated after the Secession war
several shoe s) never lifting entirely since-but ieaV
inc mentality unimpalred absolutely thank Goa
] have few, very few, staunch d loving h1ehos
upho ders Lere IN America. am gathering lou
of pieces-yerse pruse-uttered within the last SIX
wears a. shall send them cut under the name OF
- Noyenber Buughsn before Tonga Little book t2oo
psges or ls) some new pieees-a sort of continuation
ar ,upplemcnt Then / think Of printing a revised
edn Of complete writings e. Leaves of Grass" speci
men DAYS and Collect & November Bonghs' all
in one volumel soon. Please accept personal thanks
from me lnever mind the literary, & i know yon
will accept this impromptu Note In the same spirit
IN VIII il Is written Best thanks and love ~ all my
British beIpers readers g. defenders"
The Rev. f. Z. Hale's Life of Washington" which
IA pa. sing through the press of Putnam, Is s'oy
NJ the career If Washington from the point VI VIC"
which is ignored In the longer biographies Inc
boe aphies of Wa hngton have generally pad more
attention 10 his times than to his nfe This Is an
effort TO present Washingtons life to people VINO
may be supposed to know the history Of tho French
war the War OF the American Revoiution ana the
first Presidency. Mr. Hale states explicitly In inc
preface that SO far Is possible he uses Washngtohs
own Letters and diaries as his authorities lhreo
fourths of these have never been printed, ana a.
he draws more fully from manuscript than printer
sources there will be in the book good deal thai
is new to most students of history 1t Will present
what Mr. Hale has called somewhere elso the human
rather than tho deifed Washington Of the old bog
raphers